Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs began her career as a choreographer in the early 1960s as a member of the Judson Dance Theatre. She founded her own company in 1973 and, three years later, took part in Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach. In 1979, she created one of her most iconic works, DANCE, set to music by Philip Glass with a set by Sol LeWitt. The piece earned her a Guggenheim fellowship and toured widely around the world with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company. Beyond her work with her own company, she has created over 30 pieces for major ballet companies. She also directed and choreographed Akhnaten for the Nice Opera and, this season, directs a new production of Satyagraha (Philip Glass). In 2016, her choreographic scores were showcased in an exhibition titled Nothing Personal at the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, in collaboration with the Centre national de la danse, to which she donated her archives. She is a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. In 2017, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps Award from the American Dance Festival. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Université Côte d’Azur in 2021.